The Anatomy of a Troll Attack Operation
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Originally Posted March 12, 2022
KassandraSeven must have become incredibly frustrated repeatedly failing to successfully pull off another one of her “classic” coordinated social media harassment frenzy operations, designed to get an adverse reaction out of me that her associates could then mass report. Or maybe desperate. We could even say sloppy, given her use of the “convert” account Octopus, a likely sock puppet or incredibly bumbling sub that just happens to sound, act, and be operationally just like her, here just below, seeking out by email a woman without a known last name she “found” following clues, just to malign Jim.
Totally normal stuff.
Weird how this likely just created mystery account she is sending this email to doesn’t even come from a person that has and uses their last name for work purposes on a supposed business account. Just Susan. Weird indeed.
For the record, Oct denies being Sue. Kassandra also denies being Sue. Heck, even Sue probably denies being Sue knowing that the high paying market of professional trolling might, just might, be coming to an end.
Anyways, I had become a high priority target to her cultish and highly obsessive mean girl collective, that I knew she wasn’t just going to cut and run without showing me the goods, the operational tactics I sought in their full glory, if I only let her. But still, I have so much to deliver on the early engagements I can’t just jump forward yet, without first hitting reverse.
My rules, remember.
Here is some snippets from the third match, which are very telling.
Oh no!! They went out, found publicly available information about “me” from a recently created LinkedIn account using my name and known profession after onesecondname had implied she would contact my employer to tell them what I was up to, and Sue the parents of my students. Good thing they deleted those receipts quickly, right?
The intent here, a threat made by suggestion, then the posting of personal identifying information in a public forum, conveys that one will follow through on said threat, is actual doxxing.
And here, saved of course, are the two conditional threat tweets that Kassandra and Onesecondname scrubbed in the post up above, suggesting contacting parents of my students, and threatening to contact my job. I also noted that K7 did not register a “view” on my setup LinkedIn profile, during the screen grab.
The only reason this behavior constitutes harassment, or doxxing, is that the intent of the behavior, the antecedent, is given. That was a veiled threat to my career, a type of reputation threat. The behavior, the posting of my recent work history, led to the consequence of my being indifferent, taking screen-shots, and laughing at how quickly they pulled that tactic out. ABCs of behavior, right their folks.
Generally when the consequence isn’t what they desired, in this case indifference instead of an expected rage where the target then is more likely to lash out or make bad choices they can further exploit, bad actors and bullies don’t often know what to do next. These ones do.
Male.
Note the last comment Onesecondname states.
Weaponized Misogyny
A form of sexual harassment where an individual or group engages, targeting a male or males based on a false claim of harassment from a female.
In the case of KassandraSeven, she isn’t technically proven to be a woman as the account, like many of us on twitter, is unverified, this with a user concealed behind a cartoon avatar. That shielded identity makes her behavior, the oh I am a damsel in distress schtick, so inauthentic that it shouldn’t elicit a strong emotional male-protector response that an account with an actual female profile pic would. Besides, she and the whole kit, attack everyone, male or female with a high level of vindictive ferocity the whole distressed princess thing is just an act, that likely happens to fit within the parameters of what their operation is being paid for.
If she WERE acting solely on her own in this operation, weaponized misogyny wouldn’t likely stand a chance at generating a sufficiently large harassment swarm campaign against a target. But she isn’t alone.
A short time after the fourth exchange had concluded, which will be covered in a later piece hopefully, Kassandra tried a “snitch tag,” her words not mine, retweeting a piece of our conversation perhaps thinking I wouldn’t notice, to which I did the same. They don’t like it when THAT happens.
She blocked me minutes after tweeting out classic projection that she would so not ever do what she just had done, but failed.
My game. My rules.
Besides I knew there was a reasonable possibility she would engage more with her alternate account octopus which would keep impression spread low for the time being.
The above graphic, using @crookedpinkie1 as the reference point, shows that to be the case as she had little choice but to play using mostly the less impression generator, her Octopus account, to engage me. She and Jan Bobowitz, acting essentially as two “unpaid” troll interns, had quite the fun of it for two days, mostly all day, discussing why neither had a “job,” the risk of posting sensitive adult oriented pics on social media that now technically belong by TOS to Facebook, dogs, green lines that additionally proved my point, Koolaid and whatnot.
Good times. Well for me at least.
Apparently, I turned Jan straight.
At some point I exhausted Sue too, who was literally getting nowhere in her sometimes ALL-CAPs screaming, playing nice, threatening, playing nice, throwing up more pictures of Koolaid with measurements, when Koolaid isn’t exactly the long-since-discontinued Squeezeit style top of the juice bottle anyway, more of a metaphor. Those tops come off of the cheap stuff, Sue. Koolaid costs so much more, tastes great, but still is Koolaid.
While I was still somehow able to keep up the pace of conversation and writing all these articles exposing her work as a central cog in this network simultaneously, Sue was struggling to meet her own objectives and no longer enjoying her work.
No one that K7 depends on usually to drag people and tear them down emotionally, to make them suggestible to offing themselves, was joining, because, well I did preset the board, and told Sue as Octopus that I chose whom I would allow in. She would need other contacts, bigger ones, if she wanted to continue playing.
That is when finally, Sue went all in, putting some impressive subs finally into play. While I don’t know if any or all are part of K7s op, they engaged operationally and functionally in the same way as her other lackey’s did that I had sidelined. Not so curiously, they are all disinformation specialists except for one, according to their profile data. What are the chances?
Here is what I think is important here when joining in on an active inauthentic harassment troll swarm. Check. Is the water fine? Should I be jumping in when sharks are swimming? Should I be running the delete YOUR account now, mentally unwell-linked to suicidal suggestion op? Chad?
Erin pulled in two big fish for me, verified accounts that should know better to engage and harass a small account, along with a prominent, probable fake-left twitter account that understands ratio. The other two accounts that I could actually see, I brought in, which likely got missed in that pre-pool check. On their side, it was likely a pile of people. Blocked every single one of them.
My rules. Leave the chum out of the game. Focus on the big fish. People can watch.
So who were those other two verified accounts that got pulled in with Erin’s baited weaponized misogyny? See for yourself. They appear in my first tweet response to the honey pot harassment trap tweet, tagging my name. Also note the credibility enhancement that Erin is trying to pull regarding Kassandra, to pass her off as reputable. Clear sign of being a bad actor, boosting up the profile of one that exists only to harass.
Yes, I am a real person who is the person he says he is with verifiable documented activity, searchable government records, pictures, articles I wrote and sports related news reports with my name and results in a boxscore. That was the main point of dropping such searchable details, to compel someone to read, look. If one was so-inclined, they could find every detail about anyone, anywhere, so no point in hiding unless you are one engaged in doing bad things, such as cooperating in a harassment campaign, laundering disinfo into the mainstream or other nefarious scheme.
Kassandra hides.
Her type of activism, is paid work to malign and harass, recruitment, and to play the victim. Anything to harm her target, imply that they are “unwell” and should “do something about it,” while boosting aligned accounts possibly sponsored by the same dirty trickster or org. The whole Jim is unwell, and the listing of suicide prevention stuff, does certainly appear to cross the threshold for Michigan State law regarding whether conduct is a felony or not under the recent law.
So what is going on? This Cat in a stylish top hat account, had some good things to say.
Frankly, I missed the entire frenzy overnight. When I got on I had 19 notifications and a DM saying everyone on Twitter was going after my account mass reporting it.
Middle Schoolers. Pffft.
Apparently my Autism, religion, male whiteness, my kids, my wife, my work helping a non-verbal child use the toilet independently to the joy and happy tears of his mother who now could freely take him to the store or on trips that his age/size didn’t allow her to do without a family bathroom, all sorts of wicked and sick things I mostly never saw myself on Twitter, were being tossed out haphazardly often with TwitterSafety and Yoel’s account tagged and documenting everything at the spring well source of the malignant activity, Erin’s retweet. Good job guys for proving my point, allowing the powers that be to see all that action their platform has a responsibility to fix starting by suspending the core connected accounts already identified as the cause of this nexus.
You know why it was 19 notifications I woke up to and not the typical 20+?
I blocked everyone that liked either Chad, Jared, Mike or Erin’s tweet. No offense trolls, but I have better things to do than engage with the cannon fodder grunts being thrown at me that these attacks generate. Roughly two-thirds of those blocks were of inauthentic, bot-like accounts with low follower counts, older creation dates, suggesting the org had to use a secondary source with loads of bots to tap into for a swarm.
Mike has a lot to say about me, for a roughly 7500 follower count guy, whom I never engaged with and had preemptively blocked me, then joined and participated in a harassment thread. His words, as suggested, screen-grabbed.
So why are Mike, Jared and Erin carrying Kassandra Seven’s piss bucket here? What gives? Co-Conspirator0 and blocked since March 1st, shed a clue here by giving the troops marching orders where else to attack. This breaking TOS suggested behavior at this point in the swarm is being repeated, oft and everywhere, mostly via screenshots so its less traceable, to hundreds if not thousands of accounts getting around Twitter’s API to inauthentically create mass reporting.
Having dummy accounts to coordinate and cause a troll swarm generally isn’t effective when the person the org is targeting blocks everyone as they add to the interactions needed to build to the typical thousands of likes on the fire-starter tweets that cause them. Neither Chad nor Erin could do that alone. Chad, apparently ratio-ed, and others who could normally get this going, probably aren’t able to call on typical bot farm resources to pay for and generate a character attack, as THOSE are too busy right now generating engagement and impressions over the Russian war.
Sad, right?
K7 needed bigger subs, or subordinates like Mike and Jared (no offense Erin, you were NOT the bigger fish I was referring to in earlier stories). The bigger fish are those that have significantly higher reputations, able to launder disinformation and misinformation into the mainstream media and muddy effective discourse based on a built up reputation.
Mensch, Jared, Mike.
Mike’s last comment on this screen grab is some serrious psychologically messed up stuff, responding to a part of the thread with Kassandra looped in, playing the victim. Mike playing his role to add credibility and reputation to K7’s base attack against me, is evident, hence his roll as a K7 sub for this particular op. My hunch is that he, Jared like Mensch, all did the same reputation enhancement to the K7 network, the Jim is unwell suicide ideation PsyOp, and other work.
By Mike’s painting an overly broad brush maligning people exposing him and K7 for exposing himself and herself, as the kind of people that show up at people’s doors, Mike is also seemingly recruiting others who see that to go after me.
No, no.
Real people on the left, and those of us like myself in the middle, that didn’t get ourselves caught up in large-scale disinformation and harassment network campaigns, don’t just go up to people’s houses, nor recruit others openly to harass others. We instead report what is going on.
Mike. Don’t be like Mike.
Here are five things I so far have learned about Mike.
I never met, spoke, or interacted directly with Mike.
I knew Mike had blocked me, because two of the interconnected accounts within the KassandraSeven network directly interacted authentically, multiple times. I checked to see who that was, and saw what was said.
Mike’s role, like Mensch, increases the reputation of operatives within the KassandraSeven network, is also likely a disinformation mule, to launder prepared content into the new cycle from whomever hires the org.
From a blocked account, Mike continued to malign me and others, suggesting the comments to be screengrabbed.
I screengrabbed what Mike said, but noted his comment signaling something he was going to say shouldn’t be trusted.
Jared was smarter in his maligned and aligned trolling, supporting this particular op, generating a mass reporting swarm with the group retweeting Jan Bobrowicz. Here was another interconnected retweet thread to stir up mass reporting.
I don’t know which dark money group is involved in funding the KassandraSeven network nor the disinformation mule network laundering lies into the mainstream causing distrust of the media. I am still wandering through the various weeds, kicking the hornets nests when I feel like it to see what the hornets do.
What I do know now is that three verified accounts have come out in alignment supporting Kassandra’s op.
That means that what I have said and done so far, got at first low level attention, and worked its way upwards. Seems weird to think a guy who wrote such a comprehensive book on behavior, not just on Trump, but those placed by Tom Barrack nearest to him, would require the attention of so many prominent people, unless people really should listen to what he has to say.
This doesn’t mean that Flynn, Milo, Prince, O’Keefe, Stone, Posobiec or any other of the more prominent and growing list of political dirty tricksters is directly signing out checks to both Sue and Jared. That isn’t how these outfits would likely do that anyway, directly writing the checks. I would assume like Trump’s Org, they would have various shell companies to money launder, cover their trail, keep that out of the public eye. They also tend to rope in assets that don’t know that they are operatives.
Some disinformation mules may be unwittingly fooled into getting lies put into print, or joining into an ongoing reputation harm twitter attack swarm, with drops of suicide ideation, weaponized misogyny. But its clearly obvious that something is up when the same bad actors engage that did when they went after Jim, because that is how this stuff works.
Here are five final things one should know to better understand what is going on here:
PsyOps, which is short for psychological operations, constantly use personal information to attack targets psychologically.
Individuals conduct attacks from masked accounts mostly, but not always.
Often after a successful campaign, sometimes during, they change between accounts, names, wipe away damning TOS breaking tweets
Their purposes is to cause some sort of harm, professionally, emotionally, socially, politically, or to encourage others to take adverse actions such as leaving social media permanently, suggesting suicide or to engage in criminal conduct.
Using social engagement and abuse of twitter functions including retweet, like, and comments, they promote attention either positive or negative, to other accounts in their network.
I see the big fish verified accounts like Mike, Mensch and Jared, being involved here as interesting considering what Kassandra is up to, having to be pulled off their work to engage a small nobody, Special Ed teacher, former pro Magic player, with no recent work history, whom I may or not actually be.
Now THAT’S an Op.